id:			140438
accession number:	1964.37
share license status:	CC0
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/1964.37
updated:		2023-03-20 14:14:17.922000

Male Dog, 200 BC-AD 300. West Mexico, Colima, Comala style (200 BC-AD 300). Earthenware with burnished red slip; overall: 39.5 x 20.8 x 47.8 cm (15 9/16 x 8 3/16 x 18 13/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cornelia Blakemore Warner Fund 1964.37

title:				Male Dog
title in original language:	
series:				
series in original language:	
creation date:			200 BC-AD 300
creation date earliest:		-200
creation date latest:		300
current location:		233 Mesoamerican and Intermediate Region
creditline:			Cornelia Blakemore Warner Fund
copyright:			

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culture:	West Mexico, Colima, Comala style (200 BC-AD 300)
technique:	earthenware with burnished red slip
department:	Art of the Americas
collection:	AA - Mesoamerica
type:		Sculpture
find spot:	
catalogue raisonne: 

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CREATORS

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measurements: Overall: 39.5 x 20.8 x 47.8 cm (15 9/16 x 8 3/16 x 18 13/16 in.)
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

	title:		Year in Review (1964)
	opening date:   1964-12-08T05:00:00
	<i>Year in Review (1964)</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (December 8, 1964-January 31, 1965).

	title:		A Cleveland Bestiary
	opening date:   1981-10-15T04:00:00
	<i>A Cleveland Bestiary</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (October 15-December 16, 1981).

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

* Cleveland, OH:  The Cleveland Museum of Art; October 14 - December 9, 1981.  "A Cleveland Beastiary."  Cat. no. 30, listed page 62, no repr.

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PROVENANCE

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wall description:
One of the best-known subjects of West Mexican tomb sculpture is the native hairless dog, which is shown naturalistically-as here-but also wearing a human mask, signaling complex meanings.These meanings are not well-understood, but like later Mesoamericans, West Mexicans may have believed that dogs served as guides or guards in the underworld realm of the dead. For the living, they also served as food.
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RELATED WORKS

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CITATIONS

	The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1966</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1966.
	page number: 	Reproduced: p. 291
	url:		https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1966/page/n315

	The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1969</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1969.
	page number: 	Reproduced: p. 291
	url:		https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1969/page/n315

	The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978.
	page number: 	Reproduced: p. 394
	url:		https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n414

	Kathman, Barbara A. <em>A Cleveland Bestiary</em>. Cleveland, OH; Cleveland Museum of Art, 1981.
	page number: 	Mentioned: p. 33, p. 62; Reproduced: p. 37
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	The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1991.
	page number: 	Reproduced: p. 10
	url:		https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1991/page/n25

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